BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:359–361 Over the past 13 years, one constant in the field of health care liability claims has been litigation over medical devices and products. The 1990s began with the silicone gel breast implant litigation. The balance of the 1990s was devoted to litigation on Norplant and the diet drug combination fenfluramine-phentermine (fen-phen); these cases are still ongoing. T...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(1) Introduction Over the last 2 years this Journal has seen a flurry of papers and resulting correspondence related to ‘deep’ Implanon® insertion.1–7 More than 3 million women use etonogestrel contraceptive implants worldwide and 180 000 implants are fitted in the UK each year, with these numbers escalating as I write. From post-marketing data the r...

Background: Neutrophils infiltrate the endometrium pre-menstrually and after long-term progestin only-contraceptive (LTPOC) treatment. Trafficking of neutrophils involves endothelial cell-expressed intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM-1). Previous studies observed that ICAM-1 was immunolocalized to the endothelium of endometrial specimens across the menstrual cycle, but disagreed as to whether...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2002;15:102–104 Review of health care liability claims since the early 1990s shows that without interruption there has been some form of mass tort litigation involving medical devices or products. The 1990s began with the breast implant litigation that is finally now in its last death throes. The breast implant litigation was succeeded by the pedicle screw litigation, which was...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative contraceptive effectiveness, tolerability and acceptability of the levonorgestrel-releasing (20 microg per day) intrauterine system (LNG-20) compared with reversible contraceptive methods in women of reproductive age. DESIGN A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. IDENTIFICATION Studies were identified through seven databases, ...

CURRENT ONCOLOGY—VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 4 Copyright © 2008 Multimed Inc. On January 14, a bright light in the field of cancer research was extinguished with the sudden death of Dr. Judah Folkman. Folkman first introduced the concept of tumour angiogenesis as a key factor in tumour growth and a target for tumour therapy in 1970. Despite the great skepticism accorded his work, he persisted in his st...

Introduction Despite being one of the countries that has enjoyed relative peace for a sufficiently long time, Malawi remains one of the countries in the world with the worst health indicators. The maternal mortality rate for Malawi is very high by any standard. According to the Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys (MDHS), the maternal mortality rate for Malawi almost doubled between 1992 (620 ...

Photo by niu on Unsplash ABSTRACT Shackling prisoners has been implemented as standard procedure when transporting in labor and during childbirth. This ensures the protection of both public healthcare workers. However, act shackling pregnant violates principles ethics that physicians are supposed to uphold. paper will explore how principle justice beneficence, making practice unethical. INTRODU...

Recently, there has been a growing controversy, especially among evangelicals, over whether the birth control pill might have an abortifacient mechanism that sometimes causes early chemical abortions. An understanding of this controversy necessitates a clear definition of abortion, abortifacient, pregnancy, implantation, and especially personhood. If a zygote (fertilized egg) is not a person, t...

The aim of this paper is to review the performance of the family planning program initiated in 1989 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Following a quick look at the family planning program that existed before the Revolution (1967-1979), the paper documents the fate of the program during the first decade after the Islamic Revolution (1979-1988) and its official revival in 1989. It is shown that th...